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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC WILLIAM H. MILLIKIN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,531, dated April 26, 1881.

Application file'd March 11, 1881.

Toy all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. MILLIKIN, of Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Whips and I hereby declare the same to be fully, clearly, and exactly described as follows, reference being bad to the accompany ing drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view of the sleeve for connecting the tip with the stock and Fig. 2 is a side view of that part of the whip where the tip is joined to the stock.

My invention relates to means for attaching whip-tips to the stocks and it has for its ob- 5 ject to provide a device for that purpose, which shall be cheaper and more efficient than the means heretofore used for attaining that end, and shall more effectually conceal the joint and have a neater appearance than has heretofore been possible.

In practice, the whalebone or elastic tips of whips have been united to the stocks by means of metallic sheaths, internally threaded and externally smooth, or else also externally threaded for the attachment of an outer sleeve which covered the end of the braided cover and was screwed in place. In either case an unsightly thickening of the whip at the joint resulted, which it is the main object of my invention to obviate.

In practice, I spin up an internal and external thread, of a pitch about the same as that of V the strands of braid, upon a sheet-metal sleeve,

A, leaving the ends from cand c unthreadcd, as shown. The sleeve is screwed upon the stock B until the end of the latter is at about (ModeL) the center of the threaded portion a, and the whalebone tip 0 is then screwed in at the other end until it abuts against the stock B, or obviously the tip may be first screwed in. The cover is then braided down over the sleeve nearly or quite to the end, and isfinally finished off with a braided ring, or else is covered by a sleeve.

It will be evident that the sleeve A, being spun up from thin sheet metal, cannot perceptibly thicken the tip, and the end of the sleeve is only perceptible through the braid upon the minutest inspection. Furthermore, the pitch of the thread being about the same as that of the strands of braid, the latter lie snugly on the threaded portion, and the tip is practically completely concealed. Aside from its efficiency, the sleeve leaves nothing to be desired in point of economy, as the internal and external threads are spun up at one operation, and as they coincide the material may be very thin, about one-third the thickness of the tube having a cut-thread answering very well.

What I claim is-- 1. A whip having its tip and stock joined by a sheet-metal sleeve having a spun thread, whereby the sleeve is concealed by the braided cover, as set forth.

2. The sheet-metal sleeve for whips having plain cylindrical ends and a central portion upon which is spun a thread, as and for the purpose set forth.

. WILLIAM H. MILLIKIN.

Attest:

- R. D. WILLIAMS, W. A. BERTRAM, 

